This
cemetery is located at Macedonia United Methodist Church on Holston Drive.
The cemetery is believed to date to 1809 when the church was founded, but
its age is difficult to judge otherwise. Like many early nineteenth cemeteries
which continue in use in the later half of the twentieth century, fieldstones,
wooden crosses, and blank concrete slabs have been removed, making mowing
easier but leaving the graves unmarked. Probably only one-third of all graves
are marked. The northern third of the cemetery is probably solid with burials
and the middle third of the cemetery may be nearly full. Burials continue
to be made in the cemetery.

This
cemetery was recorded May 5 and 6, 1990 and was checked later that year. Update
September 28, 1997.

Three
(or two) previous records of this cemetery are available. W. J. Statum and
Joseph Lynn recorded the cemetery on October 11, 1937. Their record appears
as "Macedonia Cemetery" in Historical Records Survey, Tombstone
Records of Knox County, 1938, pp. 26-45. This is referred to as HRS in
the notes below. This record is most interesting of the three because in distinguishes
between unmarked graves and those marked with fieldstone, wooden crosses,
wooden slabs, and uncarved marble slabs.

The
cemetery was surveyed by Jamie Ault Grady in December 1967. Her record appears
as "Macedonia Cemetery" in Miscellaneous Knox County Tombstone
Inscriptions, Vol. 2, unpublished manuscript available in the McClung
Collection, Knox County Public Library, Knoxville, Tennessee. Ms. Grady included
a number of Ault family members for whom there are no markers, provided relationship
information not on the markers for several Ault family members, and provided
full names for some people whose markers list only initials. Ms. Grady also
reviewed the Historical Records Survey document and included the entries from
that must have been taken from temporary markers. This information is referred
to as Grady in the notes below.

The
third record is unattributed. It appears as "Macedonia Cemetery"
in Admiral David Farragut Chapter, DAR, Knox County Cemetery Records,
Vol. 1, 1973, pp. 40-52, unpublished manuscript available in the McClung Collection,
Knox County Public Library, Knoxville, Tennessee. This record seems to be
a repeat of the Grady information. The extra Ault family relationship information
is not there but the Ault family members without markers, the temporary markers
from 1938, the expanded names, and the name misspellings from Grady are included.
This work is referred to as DAR in the notes below. Since this was the first
of the three previous recordings I reviewed, my notes below are usually based
on this source, whereas HRS and Grady are the real sources.

Jamie Ault Grady provided the following history of the cemetery:

Macedonia
Cemetery is all probability is as old as the Macedonia Church which
was established in 1809. As was the custom of the early churches,
a place for burial of their members was provided on the church grounds.
The first church was built of logs and stood at the northeast corner
of the present burial ground of Macedonia Cemetery. A number of
graves marked with sandstone were found at this location.
On
February 10, 1851 a warranty deed in Knox County Tennessee, Book
P, Vol. II, page 668, shows that Michael Ault II, John Ault and
John Nicodemus, deeded to the Trustees of Macedonia Church two acres
of land. From the description of this land, it would indicate that
it was given for the purpose of burials, and for which it has been
used from that date.
There
is no doubt that Michael Ault, the Revolutionary soldier, born in
Germany and died in 1823 in Knox County Tennessee in the Macedonia
community is buried in this old cemetery. He purchased this same
property when he first came to Knox County in 1796 from Pennsylvania,
and he willed it to his children in 1823. He never moved out of
the community. His eldest son, George Ault, is no doubt also buried
here. He was the father of Michael Ault II, who together with John
Ault and John Nicodemus deeded the site to be used for the cemetery.
George Ault died in 1833 in Knox County Tennessee, and it is believed
that he and Michael Ault are buried on the opposite side of the
path near the spot where Michael and Mary Ault and their daughter
Cynthia Ault are buried. Headstones mark these three graves.
There
are countless graves in this old cemetery with no markers, and all
records of the cemetery have been lost. . . .